Psychophysiological responses to hookah tobacco public education messages among young adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Hookah tobacco use among young adults may be driven by misperceptions of health harms and addictiveness, appealing flavors, and social use. This study examined the effects of hookah prevention messages on participants' cognitive and emotional processing in a lab setting.

Method

One hundred twenty participants (61 susceptible never-users, 59 current users) were exposed to messages representing six categories: health risks only, health risks of social use, health risks of flavors, addiction risks only, addiction risks of social use, and addiction risks of flavors. Guided by the Limited Capacity Model of Motivated Mediated Message Processing, participants' psychophysiological responses (heart rate, skin conductance, facial action coding) were recorded while participan

SUBMITTER: Leshner G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8721562 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature